NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1670MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +60%

4.275 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M

2284

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +60%

3664

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP106

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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